perplexing error posting to php script

At first I thought this error had to do with a timeout problem, but now I am
almost certain it has direct bearing on the size of the data that I am
posting.

I am using a simple form:

<?php
$contents = "a bunch of text";
?>
<form enctype='multipart/form-data'
action='http://www.mysite.com/phpform/forms/process.php' method='post'>
<textarea name='Comment' rows=11 cols=60 ><?php echo $contents ?>
<input type=submit value='Submit'>
<input type=reset value='Cancel - do nothing'>

There are actually more fields than i am depicting here. Two of the fields
allow for textarea input. Depending on how much text I put into one of
these fields, when I press Submit, IE presents me a screen with the contents
of what i entered and ending with:

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding:
chunked Content-Type: text/html 0
After a few seconds, the script that was called finally runs, and does so
normally.
I'm quite puzzled by this. Has anyone seen this phenomena before? Where
should I begin looking for a solution??
Mark Richards
Boston

<mark.richards@massmicro.com> wrote in message
news:3f636cad$0$147$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com. ..
> At first I thought this error had to do with a timeout problem, but now I
am
> almost certain it has direct bearing on the size of the data that I am
> posting.
>
> I am using a simple form:
>
> <?php
> $contents = "a bunch of text";
> ?>
> <form enctype='multipart/form-data'
> action='http://www.mysite.com/phpform/forms/process.php' method='post'>
> <textarea name='Comment' rows=11 cols=60 ><?php echo $contents ?>
> <input type=submit value='Submit'>
> <input type=reset value='Cancel - do nothing'>
>
> There are actually more fields than i am depicting here. Two of the
fields
> allow for textarea input. Depending on how much text I put into one of
> these fields, when I press Submit, IE presents me a screen with the
contents
> of what i entered and ending with:
>
> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding:
> chunked Content-Type: text/html 0
> After a few seconds, the script that was called finally runs, and does so
> normally.
> I'm quite puzzled by this. Has anyone seen this phenomena before? Where
> should I begin looking for a solution??
> Mark Richards
> Boston

How much text are you passing? (perform a strlen() on the two textareas) -
Unless you're talking about megabytes of text I can't see a problem occuring
on the post.

I suggest you temporarily replace your process.php script with a short
script including these two lines

<?
phpinfo(INFO_VARIABLES);
exit;
?>

then test your form with some real data and examine the tabled output.
phpinfo(INFO_VARIABLES) should dump the contents of your form data in to a
readable table. If that works, without an error, then I would think the
problem is in your process.php script (which I suggest you then post).

I found it! I did not convert one of the text fields to html. Therefore
chr(13).chr(10) combinations were generating a mangling of the process.

How dumb of me to miss this.

Thanks for triggering some of my neurons.

-m-